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With respect, all of that for some bokeh? Is it worth it for y’all? Do you know how many folks just leave when the stuttering starts?

ezekg 3y ago
The entire lava lamp effect is a shader, not just the bokeh. :) I haven't noticed any drop in registrations, conversions, or any noticeable differences in traffic patterns after launching the redesign, so I'm not sure if this is actually happening. Though it's a valid concern and issue, and I do want to fix it. And I appreciate all the reports. I think it may be a retina resolution issue, but could be wrong. On launch day, everyone loved the effect (it goes along with the new logo) and only a couple people said it performed badly, but they were on exotic devices. I may have caused this a few days ago when I enabled rendering at retina resolution for tier 3 devices. What I wasn't expecting was so many tier 3 devices that aren't really what I'd consider "tier 3." I was expecting all tier 3 devices to be gaming-level GPUs. I guess I should have read the source [^0] more closely and I could've avoid this. [^0]: https://github.com/pmndrs/detect-gpu/ https://github.com/pmndrs/detect-gpu/
- tpxl 3y ago
  > What I wasn't expecting was so many tier 3 devices that aren't really what I'd consider "tier 3." I was expecting all tier 3 devices to be gaming-level GPUs. Could be the detection of GPUs doesn't work correctly? My nVidia 1080Ti is detected as nVidia 980Ti, and a sibling comment mentions an integrated laptop GPU being detected as tier 3 with isMobile=false.
- rcxdude 3y ago
  Another danger here is testing with the website being the only thing on the PC: some people use their computers like that but many others will have many different things open at once: just because it can run at an acceptable FPS on the detected hardware doesn't mean the resource use is acceptable on a system which is multitasking. I usually have >100 tabs in my browser and at least 20 of which are loaded: they cannot all demand what your site demands, even though the hardware is quite high-end.
  - Dylan16807 3y ago
    How many tabs are simultaneously visible? An animation in a non-selected tab won't get much in the way of resources, so the number of loaded tabs shouldn't be a big factor.

ezekg 3y ago

The entire lava lamp effect is a shader, not just the bokeh. :) I haven't noticed any drop in registrations, conversions, or any noticeable differences in traffic patterns after launching the redesign, so I'm not sure if this is actually happening. Though it's a valid concern and issue, and I do want to fix it. And I appreciate all the reports. I think it may be a retina resolution issue, but could be wrong. On launch day, everyone loved the effect (it goes along with the new logo) and only a couple people said it performed badly, but they were on exotic devices. I may have caused this a few days ago when I enabled rendering at retina resolution for tier 3 devices. What I wasn't expecting was so many tier 3 devices that aren't really what I'd consider "tier 3." I was expecting all tier 3 devices to be gaming-level GPUs. I guess I should have read the source [^0] more closely and I could've avoid this. [^0]: https://github.com/pmndrs/detect-gpu/ https://github.com/pmndrs/detect-gpu/

tpxl 3y ago
> What I wasn't expecting was so many tier 3 devices that aren't really what I'd consider "tier 3." I was expecting all tier 3 devices to be gaming-level GPUs. Could be the detection of GPUs doesn't work correctly? My nVidia 1080Ti is detected as nVidia 980Ti, and a sibling comment mentions an integrated laptop GPU being detected as tier 3 with isMobile=false.
rcxdude 3y ago
Another danger here is testing with the website being the only thing on the PC: some people use their computers like that but many others will have many different things open at once: just because it can run at an acceptable FPS on the detected hardware doesn't mean the resource use is acceptable on a system which is multitasking. I usually have >100 tabs in my browser and at least 20 of which are loaded: they cannot all demand what your site demands, even though the hardware is quite high-end.
- Dylan16807 3y ago
  How many tabs are simultaneously visible? An animation in a non-selected tab won't get much in the way of resources, so the number of loaded tabs shouldn't be a big factor.